Mechanisms promoting plant coexistence: can all the proposed processes be reconciled?

By S. Barot. 2004

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Feedbacks between geomorphology and biota controlling Earth surface processes and landforms: A review of foundation concepts and current understandings (2011, background): “This is called coexistence through endogenous – or self-generated – heterogeneity (Pacala and Levin, 1997; Barot, 2004).”
An idealized model for tree–grass coexistence in savannas: the role of life stage structure and fire disturbances (2009, background): “In many ecosystems, the amazingly large number of coexisting plant species apparently eludes the competitive exclusion principle (e.g. Hastings 1980; Tilman 1994; Pacala & Rees 1998; Chesson 2000; Amarasekare 2003; Barot 2004).”
Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival (2014, background): “However, since all plant species ultimately depend on the same suite of resources for survival, namely light, water and soil nutrients, resource niche partitioning is unlikely to be the only mechanism contributing to species coexistence in diverse plant communities (Barot 2004; Silvertown 2004).”